The lecture will present a practice-led research project titled Beyond
Utopia, initiated by the collaborative practice of artist Sophie Warren
and architect Jonathan Mosley with writer on art and architecture Robin
Wilson. The research project aimed to establish a critical dialogue with
institutions of city design and to find new sites of productive tension
between the “real” and the “fictional.” Submitting a utopian
architectural proposal for a real site in London to the scrutiny of the
institutions that dominate the design and programming of city space, the
project enacted a form of playful provocation, drifting in and though
the procedures, systems and languages of planning, architecture and city
development… MORE